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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Res: Konqueror to inform about hard links?
From:       "Michael Howell" <mhowell123 () gmail ! com>
Date:       2008-08-28 23:31:27
Message-ID: a2927be10808281631j2c23d192pc1254e79ddf88c22 () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 4:24 PM, Matthew Woehlke <
mw_triad@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:

> Right, and since the other link may be in a different mountpoint (think
> bind mounts or NFS), trying to find the other link can be difficult or
> even impossible.

No. Hard links must be on the same file system, since inode references
cannot go cross file system.

-- 
Michael Howell
mhowell123@gmail.com

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<div dir="ltr">On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 4:24 PM, Matthew Woehlke <span \
dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:mw_triad@users.sourceforge.net">mw_triad@users.sourceforge.net</a>&gt;</span> \
wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" \
style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; \
padding-left: 1ex;"> Right, and since the other link may be in a different mountpoint \
(think<br> bind mounts or NFS), trying to find the other link can be difficult or<br>
even impossible.</blockquote><div>No. Hard links must be on the same file system, \
since inode references cannot go cross file system.<br></div></div><br>-- <br>Michael \
Howell<br><a href="mailto:mhowell123@gmail.com">mhowell123@gmail.com</a><br>

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